Bye Bye, Burkie

32 Thoughts: The Podcast

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Hockey, Sports

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Brian Burke is joining the Pittsburgh Penguins as their President of Hockey Operations. But before he goes, he joins Jeff and Elliotte to chat about why he decided to get back into an executive position, how the deal came together, what he likes about the organization, the message from ownership and much more. This podcast is produced and sound designed by Amil Delic, and hosted by Jeff Marek and Elliotte Friedman. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	Burke you're ready?
0:01.0	Yep.
0:02.0	It's just 31 turds.
0:03.7	This is 31 turds.
0:06.6	This is 31 turds.
0:10.0	So I made you a promise Elliot Friedman and I'd like to say that this is a promise I actually kept.
0:15.3	A few shows ago I said to you every podcast I will ask you for an update on the
0:20.6	Pittsburgh Penguins General Manager search and today now that that
0:24.4	has concluded my promise has been kept I've asked you every podcast but now I don't
0:30.2	have to Ron Hextal, general manager, and the shocker. Brian Burke now
0:39.5	ex-of-sports net, now president of Hockey Operations for the pens.
0:45.0	Set us up on this one.
0:47.0	Well, first of all, I'm happy to give the timeline because one of the texts I got in the aftermath of it was did you know
0:55.8	Berky was in the whole time and just hide that fact and the answer is no and I
1:02.0	do want to make that very clear.
1:04.5	Only once have I ever done anything close to that in my career and I will tell that story too.
1:11.8	So Berkey called me at 140 PM on Tuesday and said I'm leaving.
1:20.6	And I like laughed and he goes no I'm serious and he said I'm going to tell you something but you have to agree
1:29.6	That you can't release it until 2.15.
1:33.4	And I said, okay.
1:35.0	And he goes, I'm going to Pittsburgh with Ron Hextal
1:38.5	to be the president of hockey operations
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